This may help you get things started. Be aware that this site is all unofficial, so exercise caution. I've never been bitten by one of these sorts of downloads... they are put out by helpful people to lend a hand as part of the open-source community. However, I'd probably give my system a scan the first time just to be safe and show I'd done my due diligence.

This may help you get things started. Be aware that this site is all unofficial, so exercise caution. I've never been bitten by one of these sorts of downloads... they are put out by helpful people to lend a hand as part of the open-source community. However, I'd probably give my system a scan the first time just to be safe and show I'd done my due diligence.

However, currently I use a 8676-*L1X* which works perfectly, but the
8676-*61X* continue to drive me crazy. The weird thing is, that there is
NO possibility to go into the Raid Controller Setup using <CTRL><C>.

However, currently I use a 8676-*L1X* which works perfectly, but the
8676-*61X* continue to drive me crazy. The weird thing is, that there is
NO possibility to go into the Raid Controller Setup using <CTRL><C>.

There was a link in a previous post which seemed similar to your situation. In that link they discussed that the Linux boot disk might be lacking the correct firmware to talk to the disk hardware. Someone had put together some alternative boot disks that included the firmware, though it is an unofficial installation disk.

As hardware ages some of the original resources become less available and one usually has to try some alternative approaches. If the ISO images you have aren't working, we're going to have to break down the tasks that you want to perform and may need to use different tools than the original IBM offerings.

Since these issues seem to be pre-Linux issues, you might also want to check with the IBM Systems forum, as they may have some better hardware specific options.